For the time being, the US group is not building any battery cells at its German site.
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Dusseldorf The fact that Tesla is not initially starting full battery cell production in its German plant in Grünheide apparently has other reasons than lower energy costs and new tax incentives in the USA worth billions. Several sources close to the electric car manufacturer report a significant delay in a crucial but highly complex production technique.
Actually, Tesla was planning a complete cell production in Grünheide. But now only the electrodes are being researched there. All machines for the remaining production steps of winding, assembling and formatting the battery cells are moving to the Austin car plant in Texas, which is now the company’s headquarters.
This is not a rejection of Grünheide. Tesla boss Elon Musk wants to continue to build a battery cell plant in Brandenburg in the long term. But before that, the electric car manufacturer has to get the so-called dry coating of the electrodes under control. A total of five experts, two of whom are close to Tesla, report that test systems with the technology are currently running quite successfully, but that implementation in large series is lacking.
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